Ayurveda Initiative For Global Health

Weekly Knowledge 14 Melbourne 13 Sep 1995  Austrailia BE A GOPAL  Like fish in the water, you are in air. Thoughts are in mind. Mind is in Big Mind. The Big Mind in Me is love. Emotions are ripples in love. Love is all Knowledge. Every atom of Big Mind is crammed with Knowledge. Knowing this, you stop seeking. You seek until you come to the Master. You walk until you come to the swimming pool. You don't walk or run in the swimming pool -- you swim or float. Once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.  You are Knowledge. Every atom in you is shimmering with Knowledge. This is called Go. Be a Go-Pal. Be a friend in Knowledge. Go has four meanings: Knowledge Movement Achievement Freedom or liberation Pal means friend or protector -- one who takes care of. Often you become friends by:- Gossiping about negative things Complaining Similar cravings or aversions Common enemies or common problems Common goals or common addictions. Coming together in Knowledge is...

It was February 2011 and all were volunteering for the upcoming YES!+ course to be taken by Bawa and Dinesh bhaiya which was followed by YES!+ DSN and Sahaj Samadhi Course.  And I was sitting in my room sad and depressed. The reason was my cousin (my elder brother) who is very close to me, was going through the toughest period of his life. He was crossing the age of marriage according to parents and relatives (he was 33) and was forced by everyone for the same. His business was at a great loss. He was under deep depression which made up his mind for suicide attempt. I was sad because I was not there to support him. Moreover, I was not even doing Seva which added to my sadness. One day, my YES!+ teacher called me for dinner with other volunteers. I did not feel like going anywhere but I could not say no to him so I went. He was sitting in front of me and was reading out “I Promise” (By Guruji) to one of the volunteers. Listening to it I suddenly burst into tears and narr...

I would like to share my story with Guruji, right from the scratch. Well, the journey started in the year 2009. I got into Engineering College. I then did the Art of Living Basic course, but couldn’t continue doing Short Kriya on a regular basis. You know the engineering life.  I would find it difficult to make time. But at the end, I knew I could if I really wanted to. As they say “Nothing is impossible” Then in 2012, Guruji visited my home in Durgapur (West-Bengal). My parents are active volunteers serving AOL since years. Well, it was that day which changed my life completely. Guruji spoke with me for a while, and I showed my urge to study abroad. He just asked me one question “Kriya karte ho daily”? (Do you do your kriya daily?). Then, I replied “Haan Gurudev, kabhi kabhi” (Yes Guruji, sometimes). He saw my expression and gave me a smile and said “Har din kiya karo” (you must do it daily). He then asked me “Tumhe sach mein jaana hai USA padhne”? (Do you really want ...

The Divine can come to you in any form at any time. Gurudev came to my rescue in the form of that labourer at a crucial time. About a decade ago, I went to Jaipur to teach a few Art of Living courses. On reaching my host family’s home, I left my suitcases in the room and rushed to the building across the road where lunch had been organised by some teachers.  I had barely reached the building, and slipped and fell on a small slope at the entrance. To my utter dismay, what i thought was a slight sprain, was actually a broken ankle - broken into two pieces. My left foot was kind of dangling on the side and here i was in a blanked out mindless state, making desperate attempts to straighten my foot. Some labourers from an adjacent construction saw me do that. One of them came running, sat down next to me and stopped me from trying to straighten my foot. He had a look of such concern and compassion on his face and it was his loving expression that pulled me out of my d...

My name is Bhakti Bakale. I live in Vasai (a locality Mumbai). Though there are many miracles happening with Guruji’s presence in our lives, I would like to share something which I recently experienced.  I am working with Deutsche Bank since more than a year now. I was recruited just before the launch of a major project. I completed work on the same and it went live in October. Once that was done, a lot of paper work was reduced, which lessened my scope of work as well. The bank was also going in for cost cutting. And due to the launch of a new system, work that was previously being handled by me was now to be outsourced to the Accenture team, which meant that my role in the company would no more be of much significance. Feet Of Beloved Sri Sri I had a meet with my manager in May’13, where he very clearly kept the situation in front of me and asked me to look out for a job elsewhere, as due to reduction in the volume of work, they didn’t require my post any further. I w...